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Haig Housing Trust

Charity Number: 1125556
Scottish Charity Number: SC040058
Company Number: 06593129

Haig Housing Trust is proud to have served the British Veteran community for over 100 years. As the leading housing provider for ex-Service personnel in the UK, the charity owns over 1,500 properties across 50 locations.

The Trust assists eligible Veterans and their families who are in housing need, whether they are transitioning into civilian life or are simply in need of a helping hand.

Haig offers a mix of family-sized and smaller houses, flats and maisonettes on small, well-managed estates. These communities range in size from as small as six properties to our largest estate in Morden, South London, with 350 homes.

Contact Information

http://www.haighousing.org.uk
enquiries@haighousing.org.uk
Mountbarrow House
12 Elizabeth Street
London
SW1W 9RB
0208 685 5777

Support Offered

Provision of general needs housing for rent across the UK.

Guidance about housing and signposting to other Veterans charities which can assist those in housing need.

The Trust also provides a small number of joint purchase properties for severely wounded or injured Service personnel and Veterans.

Healthier Heroes CIC

Company Number: 11475724

Our purpose is to deliver a service of safe housing, holistic, trauma-informed support that helps vulnerable adults stabilise, rehabilitate, and reintegrate into independent living and purposeful community life.

Healthier Heroes, offer more than just a safe place to stay, we are a community. Service members are supported by a multidisciplinary team including outreach workers, an in-house psychotherapist, veteran peer mentors, and wellbeing coordinators who help build emotional resilience, practical life skills, and a sense of belonging. Everything, we, as leaders, needed but never received.

Our vision is to inspire a movement of resilience and empowerment, cultivating a healthier future for all. To create a society where every veteran and those from their community, has access to safe housing, the tools, resources, and support needed to lead a healthy, balanced life.

Healthier Heroes CIC is committed to offering innovative housing, health and mental wellbeing support. Through community engagement, personalised services, and impactful education, we strive to remove barriers to well-being, promote positive lifestyle changes, and ensure that all people, especially those who have served, are given the opportunity to thrive.

Contact Information

http://www.healthierheroescic.co.uk
connect@healthierheroescic.co.uk
Bancroft House
4-6 Elizabeth Street
Burnley
BB11 2BQ

Support Offered

We offer a combination of outreach, supported accommodation, and one-to-one interventions, working closely with statutory services, health providers, local authorities, and the wider veterans’ sector. Our team has expertise in supporting individuals with complex needs, including mental health difficulties, substance misuse recovery, homelessness, and transitions back into civilian life.

Healthier Heroes CIC is committed to collaborative working, safeguarding, and evidence-based practice, ensuring that those we support receive consistent, coordinated care that promotes independence, resilience, and positive outcomes.

Help 4 Homeless Veterans

Charity Number: 1148155

They provide a ‘Service of Care’ for veterans who for whatever reason find themselves vulnerable and living rough.

Contact Information

https://help4homelessveterans.org/
help4homelessveterans@gmail.com
11A Regent Street South
Barnsley
S70 2HT
07586777856

Support Offered

“Our mission is to source and provide accommodation to Ex Service Personnel who are living rough or in unsatisfactory accommodation”.

Help a Squaddie

Charity Number: 1182523

Our mission is to provide immediate and sustained support to homeless veterans, ensuring they receive the resources, care, and opportunities they need to rebuild their lives. We are dedicated to ending homelessness among veterans by offering safe housing, comprehensive mental health and wellness services, and pathways to employment and reintegration into civilian life.
Through our targeted outreach programs, we actively engage with veterans living on the streets, connecting them with tailored services that address both immediate needs and long-term recovery. We focus on providing physical shelter, emotional support, and mentorship programs to assist veterans and their families.

Contact Information

http://helpasquaddie.org.uk/
Admin@helpasquaddie.org.uk
St. Johns Church
Hednesford Road
Heath Hayes,CANNOCK
WS12 3DZ

Support Offered

Crisis Intervention and Housing Support
We offer emergency housing referrals and operate the Russell Aston Home for Veterans, a transitional residence that combines safe accommodation with structured support for those overcoming homelessness and instability. Alongside this, we offer emergency food and support for veterans, which includes signposting to Mental Health services such as Op Courage.

Help A Squaddie also offers activities like our breakfast club and outdoor activities like paddleboarding, canoeing, cycling, and walking.

Help for Heroes

Charity Number: 1120920
Company Number: 6363256

Help for Heroes helps members of the Armed Forces community to live well after service. The charity supports all veterans, serving personnel, people who have served alongside the UK military, and the families of all of these.

Contact Information

http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk
14 Parker’s Close
Downton Business Centre
Downton
SP5 3RB
0300 303 9888

Support Offered

The charity helps people manage their physical and mental health, and supports their financial, social and welfare needs.

Support services are provided one-to-one, in group educational courses, with direct grants, and through sporting and social activities.

0300 303 9888

www.helpforheroes.org.uk
getsupport@helpforheroes.org.uk

Herefordshire Veterans Support Centre

Charity Number: 1192644

To promote, the health, wellbeing and resettlement into the community of any and all current (and primarily) ex HM Armed Forces personnel, ex HM Armed Forces Reservists or former members of the Merchant Navy who have served alongside their HM Armed Forces
comrades during a conflict (also referred to as veterans) along with their families and dependents who reside in Herefordshire or the surrounding area region and who are (or might in the future be) in charitable need including those who are suffering from mental
or physical illness of any description or are in need of rehabilitation as a result of such illness, who are experiencing difficulties adjusting to post service civilian life, are experiencing hardship, unemployment or homelessness in such ways as the trustees of the charity think fit by:

(1) Providing a single point of contact to assist in the provision of physical, psychological, practical support, advice and encouragement to relieve a veteran’s distress, illness or hardship.

(2) Providing or assisting in the provision of activities and facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time activities with the object of improving veterans’ wellbeing, self-esteem, self-confidence and aid their transition back into local society.
(3) Providing or arranging provision of education, vocational skills training or other assistance and to create and facilitate job opportunities along with assisting HM Armed Forces veterans to prepare for and find employment.
(4) Operate drop in and activity centre(s) staffed by volunteers for HM Armed Forces veterans and their families and dependants to provide advice, empathy, support and sign-posting services to help Armed Forces veterans who are experiencing problems (or might in the future) due to one of the above challenges and to assist them in accessing local service providers and wider support organisations that may be able to provide help or support.

Contact Information

http://herefordshire-vsc.org/
hvsc-referrals@herefordshire.gov.uk
100 Widemarsh Street
Hereford
HR4 9HG
01432 674853

Support Offered

HVSC support is provisioned by a rich array of personnel and activities. It operates a central hub staff by expert full time staff as a drop incentre and as a facility to bring in experts in health, finance, the law, employment, adjacent charities, social subscribers and
volunteers. It further operates pop-up centres across the County and is supported by a brilliant team of volunteers and outreach staff.

Heropreneurs

Charity Number: 1136671
Company Number: 07065815

Heropreneurs is a registered charity that has been created by successful entrepreneurs for the benefit of new entrepreneurs. Heropreneurs helps anyone, or their families, who has served in the Armed Forces on the commercial creation of a business and its future growth strategy. It is also increasingly being asked to help more established businesses on their future strategy.

Contact Information

http://www.heropreneurs.co.uk/
team@heropreneurs.co.uk
2 High Street
Mildenhall
Bury St Edmunds
IP28 7EJ
020 7193 4128 

Support Offered

To date Heropreneurs has helped create more than 100 new businesses and there are currently more than 20 taking part in our Mentoring Programme.

Our Mentoring Programme, led by our Chairman Peter Mountford, helps new businesses with their initial strategies. This includes:

• Whether or not the business is a sensible commercial proposition
• An assessment of the likely Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats for the business
• Advice on the creation of a Business Plan
• Advice on the Marketing Strategy of the business
• A review of the Financial Strategy of the new business
• Access to the extensive network of contacts of Heropreneurs
• Advice on funding sources if required
• The possibility of Heropreneurs investing in the business

All Mentors have a clearly demonstrated success record in their industry, so they are well qualified for their role.

Occasionally, Heropreneurs invests in the new businesses that it helps.

HighGround

Charity Number: 1151225
Company Number: 8236843

To provide advice and support to Service Leavers, Reservists and Veterans about employment and vocational opportunities in the land-based sector.

Contact Information

http://www.highground-uk.org
c/o The Poppy Factory
20 Petersham Road
Richmond
TW10 6UR

Support Offered

Advice re land-based training, qualifications, work experience, employment and self-employment.

Rural Weeks programme starts Spring 2015.

Ongoing mentoring and support.

Provides Horticultural Therapy service at Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court.

Historic Royal Palaces

Charity Number: 1068852

We are a team of people who love and look after six of the most wonderful palaces in the world. We create space for spirits to stir and be stirred. We want everyone to feel welcome and accepted. We tell stories about the monarchs you know, and the lives you don’t. We let people explore and we set minds racing. We are a charity, and your support gives the palaces a future, for everyone.

Contact Information

http://www.hrp.org.uk
Info@hrp.org.uk
Historic Royal Palaces
Tower of London
EC3N 4AB

Support Offered

Cobseo members will receive access to our sites, through working with the Community Partnership Team. We have a charitable duty, written into our founding charter, to help everyone learn about the sites in our care. We want everyone to feel welcome and accepted when they visit the palaces. Within the Community Partnership Team our expertise is in providing wellbeing activities, programmes and projects to a range of audiences to help them connect to our sites in ways that are meaningful to them.

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